All the books list are either review/tour books or titles that I own. I'm hoping the blank spaces can be filled out with library books. I do know that one "U" book must be purchased (The Gardner Heist) but I want to read that for another challenge.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

This was going to be for 2010 but there are still a couple of weeks left of 2009.... Now, I've signed up for 11 Book Tours. Two are on the list but I don't know when the others will arrive so they'll need to squeeze in.

edited 1-6: sigh, already a month behind. Challenges have been joined, categories changed...waiting to hear about more review books, have not received Flying Free.

The Cat Who Walks through Walls (Mind Voyages)a Nora Roberts book (Harlequin)a Lisa Jackson book (Lisa Jackson)Riders of the Purple Sage (Colorful)a Reading through the Seasons book The Picture of Dorian Gray (Colorful)

~Tour Books:When the Whistle BlowsShadowed SummerForget-Her-NotsDark DivinePrincess For HireUnityGatewayOut of the Pumpkin ShellBy the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead

~For 10*10*10 (some of these are taken care of in the list above but I've still got to figure out which books go where)young adultChristian FictionNon-FictionRomancePerpetual Challenge booksfantasy/Sci-fiMystery/thriller/suspensedusty or forgotten from my shelves60's

Saturday, October 3, 2009

I had heard about or seen several books I thought looked good but they were not the first of the series or I already had too big of a stack and put them aside. It was Vampire Adademy that sent me to the web to find out more. If I hadn't just gone on a bit of a spending spree, I'd be at the book store right now picking up Frostbite.

AnthologiesImmortal: Love Stories With Bite - Blue Moon

Eternal Lover - City of Demons A Georgina story, takes place between books 2 and 3.

Dreams and Desires - Brushstrokes This is a Georgina story also. Dreams and Desires was a small-release charity anthology, the proceeds of which benefit a shelter for abused women. It doesn't show up in most stores, but it can be ordered at Barnes and Noble online.

Kisses From Hell - as of yet untitled short about Lissa's parents (Vampire Academy) to be released in 2010.

Dark Swan - adult seriesEugenie Markham didn't want any of this. Until now, she's been content with her job as a freelance shaman, battling and banishing Otherworldly creatures. When a prophecy makes her the Otherworld's most popular bachelorette, Eugenie finds herself fighting off supernatural suitors, as well as the evils that begin emerging from her past...

#1 Storm Born#2 Thorn Queen#3 Iron Crowned - 2010#4 planned

Georgina Kincaid - her first series, written for adultsAs if love wasn't hard enough! Imagine not being able to touch your boyfriend without sucking away his soul. Welcome to the world of Georgina Kincaid, a reluctant succubus who always seems to find herself in the middle of supernatural intrigue...

Vampire Academy - young adultTwo races of vampires walk our world. The Moroi are alive and wield elemental magical, while the Strigoi are undead and evil--feeding on the innocent to survive. Rose Hathaway--a half-vampire with poor impulse control--is training to be a bodyguard for a Moroi princess. Learning to decapitate and stake is hard enough, but Rose's real danger may lie in an illicit romance with one of her instructors...

Monday, August 24, 2009

As near as I can tell, Garrison Allen wrote six books in the "Big Mike" mystery series. I have all six.

Penelope Warren calls her bookstore Mycroft & Co., in honor of the cat who presides there. Tough and macho, Big Mike is ready to match wit and claw with the most cunning critter. For when it comes to catching a killer, this lethal weapon is always up to scratch.

Desert Cat, 300 pages

Meddlesome, mean-spirited Louise Fletcher was high on everyone's least-liked list. An expert ta backstabbing, she is found with a knife between her shoulder blades and a death grip on a bright new penny. Everyone in Empty Creek has a motive, but the police are stymied. so it's up to Penelope and her felicitous feline partner to sniff out Louise's secrets, paw through her past-and pounce on a deadly killer who seems to have nine lives.

Royal Cat. 287 pages

The annual Elizabethan Spring Faire has transformed Empty Creek, Arizona into Merry Olde England. Anyone who misbehaves may be sent summarily to the stocks.

But more than mischief is afoot when Carolyn Lewis, the less-than-popular retired teacher playing The Virgin Queen, is executed in the dark of night. Her crown passes to Penelope, then the murderer takes an encore, and it's up to her and Big Mike to take their sleuthing behind the scenes...were death treads the boards and a cunning killer refuses to be upstaged.

Stable Cat, 292 pages

The Great Arabiain Horse Show is in town but high riding and good times is not to be. First a prize stallion disappears then his trainer is found outside the empty stall, shot through the heart.

Penelope and Big Mike unearth a string of puzzling leads. In pursuit of answers, a game detective and sly puss race down a rocky trail of shifting identities and secret scandals, through an obstacle course of cunning schemes and private peccadilloes...and into a deadly phot finish against a vengful killer who might just call all the shots.

Baseball Cat, 320 pages

Barely out of the dugout, trying to break a hot losing streak, the Coyotes are hoping to star in the minor leagues. But before the first not of the National Anthem is sung, someone uses the owner's head for a baseball and scores a deadly hit.

Management squabbles, money troubles, marital mayhem and an ex-major leaguer struggling to make a comeback don't make it any easier to understand why the murder weapon bears a very small set of fingerprints; what the strange file found in the team office means; or whether the victim has been concealing a secret lover. With a team of suspects, Penelope and Mycroft soon find themselves threatened by a clever killer ready to risk the whole game to get away with murder and steal home.

Dinosaur Cat, 318 pages

When the discovery of a baby Seismosaurus fossil attracts a horde of media vultures to the town of Empty Creek, Arizona, the incredible find is shadowed by an even bigger sensation. A young scientist has been murdered at the site-her body found with a bullet in the back, sending sometime sleuth Penelope Warren out to the scene. But before Penelope arrives, a mysterious explosion removes any evidence.

When penelope digs up clues buried deep in Empty Creek's history, she soon realizes that she has just scratched the surface of a very deadly mystery-one that will pit her against forces that could precipitate anything form an Empty Creek wet t-shirt rematch to more blood on the sand.

Movie Cat, 298 pages

A Hollywood film crew has descended on Empty Creek to shoot a big-budget western. But the sleey Arizona town soon becomes the backlot for a shocking murder, leaving the locals asking, who in his right mind would murdr flamboyant director C.D. Masterly, the one man destined to put Empty Creek on the big screen? Enter Penelope Warren. She's been cast as the next victim! Unless she can determine who the killer is...before the final fade out.